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i want select xyzitem below xelement. want know best way select xyzitem using linq or lambda. want print value of "no" tag of each xyzitem. suggestion helpful me.

<soap:body xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"> <updatemultiple_result xmlns="urn:microsoft-dynamics-schemas/page/xyzitem">     <xyzitem_list>         <xyzitem>                            <no>n2610</no>             <description>productdescription</description>                        </xyzitem>         <xyzitem>                            <no>bb8100</no>             <description>productdescription</description>                        </xyzitem>         <xyzitem>                            <no>sw810i</no>             <description>productdescription</description>                        </xyzitem>         <xyzitem>                            <no>8525pda</no>             <description>productdescription</description>                        </xyzitem>         <xyzitem>                            <no>mm-a900m</no>                        </xyzitem>         <xyzitem>                            <no>ma464ll/a</no>             <description>productdescription</description>                        </xyzitem>         <xyzitem>                            <no>lx.fr206.001</no>             <description>productdescription</description>                        </xyzitem>         <xyzitem>                            <no>vgn-txn27n/b</no>             <description>productdescription</description>                        </xyzitem>         <xyzitem>                            <no>m285-e</no>             <description>productdescription</description>                        </xyzitem>         <xyzitem>                            <no>cn_3</no>             <description>productdescription</description>                        </xyzitem>     </xyzitem_list> </updatemultiple_result> </soap:body> 

thanks

kishore k

you have namespace declared, should use provide names of elements:

xdocument xdoc = xdocument.parse(xml); xnamespace ns = "urn:microsoft-dynamics-schemas/page/xyzitem"; var numbers = in xdoc.descendants(ns + "xyzitem")               select (string)i.element(ns + "no");